So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Mon May 6 07:42:22 2002

> Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > // What about the "uses" directive? I didn't program in Pascal a whole
> > // lot but I remember when I did need something like a graphics library
> > // I "use"d it.
>
> Not in the original standard (from N. Wirth, may you pronounce him by
> value or by reference or by whatever... ;-), so this must have been an
> extension from your compiler's manufacturer.

I believe Ken Bowles' team at UCSD first added that extension to their
Pascal, which in turn begat Lisa Clascal and MPW Object Pascal.

Which brings me to a good question: does anyone have any documentation
for Lisa Clascal? I thought it might be in the two-volume loose-leaf
Inside Macintosh, but it appears not.

-dq
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 07:42:22 BST